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Philosophy

"Life is like Stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink"

 Suzuki Roshi, Zen master

"If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself.

 Alan Watts

"May you live in interesting times, and attract the attention of important people."

 Full version of famous Chinese curse

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

 Bertrand Russell

"Some would sooner die than think. In fact, they often do."

 Bertrand Russell

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

 Bertrand Russell

"you are what you don't shit"

 Wavy Gravy

"And life itself confided this secret to me: 'Behold, it said, 'I am that which must always overcome itself. Indeed, you call it a will to procreate or a drive to an end, to something higher, farther, more manifold...."

 Thus Spake Zarathustra II 12

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"Whenever you point your finger at someone, you have three pointed at yourself."

 Hindu proverb

"The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim."

 Benjamin Mays

"Nothing recedes like success."

 Walter Winchell

"Think universally, Act Selfishly"

 Unknown

Politics

"Every people deserve the government they have."

 Unknown

"I have opinions of my own strong opinions but I don't always agree with them."

 George H.W. Bush

"And let me say in conclusion, thanks for the kids. I learned an awful lot about bathtub toys about how to work the telephone. One guy knows several of them know their own phone numbers preparation to go to the dentist. A lot of things I'd forgotten. So it's been a good day."

 George H.W. Bush

"Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

 George Bush I discussing a Walter Mondale comment that he didn't have the manhood to apologize for an incorrect assertion.

"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."

 Frederic Bastiat

"psychedelic drugs cause paranoia, confusion, and total loss of reality in politicians that have never taken them"

 Dr. Timothy Leary

"Democracy is the worst system possible except for any other."

 Winston Churchal

"There is no better argument against democracy than a five-minute conversation the common man"

 Winston Churchill

"I said a lot of stupid things when I was with the Conservative Party, and I left them, because I did not want to go on saying stupid things."

 Winston Churchill

"Cyanide is a scare word."

 Director of the Texas Water Quality Board

"It just makes good sense to put all your eggs in one basket."

 Texas Rep. Joe Salem speaking on an amendment requiring all revenues to go into the state treasury

"Ain't nothin' in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos."

 Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower

"And now, will y'all stand and be recognized?"

 Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis to a group of handicapped people in wheelchairs

"No thanks, once was enough."

 Texas Governor Bill Clements, asked if he had been born again

"I am filled with humidity."

 Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis

"You can teach 'em to type, but you can't teach 'em to grow tits."

 Texas Rep. Charlie Wilson, speaking on secretaries

"Spending on the military doesn't increase the deficit."

 Ronald Reagan

"If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want drillin' rights on that man's head."

"The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves."

 Plato (427-347 BCE)

"He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it."

 Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay, "Yes, Prime Minister"

Outlawing drugs in order to solve drug problems is much like outlawing sex... to win the war against AIDS."

 Ronald Siegel, "Intoxication"

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

 Derek Bok, president of Harvard

"What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?"

 Marion Barry

"Go fuck yourself."

 Vice President Dick Cheney to Sen. Patrick Leahy, during an angry exchange on the Senate floor about profiteering by Halliburton

"You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the RESULT of current thinking"

 Albert Einstein

"A billion dollars here and a billion dollars there soon added up to real money."

 Senator Everett Dirksen

"Columbus saved the Indians from themselves."

 Rush Limbaugh

"Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion."

 Jon Stewart

"Homosexuals do not have an 'agenda' that involves brainwashing or converting children to their ways. That's religion you're thinking of."

 @AtheistMel [Not me]

"In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

 Dwight Eisenhower

"That didnt happen.
And if it did, it wasnt that bad.
And if it was, thats not a big deal.
And if it is, thats not my fault.
And if it was, I didnt mean it.
And if I did
You deserved it."

 Chris Shepherd  A Narcissists Prayer

Math, Science, and Technology

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

 Edsger W. Dijkstra

"Never mistake a clear view for a short distance"

 Paul Saffo, Institute for the Future

"We cannot predict where, ultimately, the Computer Revolution will take us. All we know for certain is that, when we finally get there, we won't have enough RAM."

 Dave Barry

"Computers are useless. All they can do is give you answers."

 Pablo Picasso

"Do not go gentle into that long, dark night but rage, rage against the dying of the light."

 Dylan Thomas

"Zero defects: The result of shutting down a production line."

 Kelvin Throop III, "The Management Dictionary"

"A Consultant is a guy who knows 125 different ways to make love, but who doesn't know any women."

 Mark Russell

"We're going to have tentacles into the PC-buying community that are going to get us closer and closer to the right answers,"

 Andrew Grove, Intel's CEO speaking on the Pentium math errors

"Each time you toss out a "singing" greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950."

 Paul Saffo, futurist

"We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance."

 John Wheeler

"'Offence' is the last straw the faith-heads clutch when they run out of rational arguments."

 Sir Richard Dawkins

Programming

"Beware of bugs in the above code. I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

 Donald Knuth

"I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile."

 Bill Davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

 Bill Gates 1981

"A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library."

 F. H. Westheimer

"There are bugs and then there are bugs. And then there are bugs."

 Karl Lehenbauer

"When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb."

 Steve Haflich (smh@Franz.COM)

"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

 Charles Babbage

"The difference between theory and practice is always greater in practice than in theory."

 Unknown

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."